This article started life when I was asked to write a comparison of x86 and PowerPC CPUs for work. We produce PowerPC based systems and are often asked why we use PowerPC CPUs instead of x86 so a comparison is rather useful. While I have had an interest in CPUs for quite some time but I have never explored this issue in any detail so writing the document proved an interesting exercise. I thought my conclusions would be of interest to OSNews readers so I've done more research and written this new, rather more detailed article. This article is concerned with the technical differences between the families not the market differences.

because it was making my head hurt. Can you say proofreading? spellcheck? A second grader writes with better grammar. Perhaps you need to put the pipe down a bit sooner before writing your next article.

Let me suggest looking two words up in the dictionary: effect and affect.